VA - v ' ' " a .,,4 m 1 h :'P fr? -y "V-,; I. 5 .ft " jKU,yv V- ''- -J " ' --"-wNL ' y 4 Advertiser Photo Oakland's Bill North and L.A.'i Bill Buckner take relay batons from Campy Campanerii and Steve Garvcy (obscured) in yesterday's Super Teams competition. The Dodgers led the A's, 3-1, after the first day. , A's in Super trouble: They're getting along ByBENKALB Advertiser Sports Writer As the Oakland A's walked from the swimming pool at Punahou following the first day of competition yesterday in ABC's Super Teams, a fan looked down upon them and said, "You know why they're not winning this thing? They're not fighting among themselves." Perhaps the A's ought to find some way to get angry at one another and psyche themselves up, because as it stands now they are the low team of the four involved. They are also one point from elimination. The Los Angeles Dodgers, with victories in the relay race, the obstacle course and swimming, lead the A's, 3-1, in a best of seven-event competition. Oakland's lone victory came in the bicycle relay. IN THE FOOTBALL part of the program, which featured two protests, the Pittsburgh Steelers were tied, 2-2, with the Minnesota Vikings. The Vikes won the swimming and running relays. The Steelers took the obstacle course event and the bike relay. Sal Bando and Bert Campaneris, the A's first tandem, took about a 100-yard lead over Don Sutton and Joe Ferguson in the one-mile bike relay. Bill Russell and Steve Garvey, peddling for the Dodgers on the third leg, cut the lead to about 25 yards, but Oakland's Ray Fosse-Dick Green extended the lead on the anchor leg a id won by seven seconds. "What happened? You guys stop for hot dogs?" said Bando to Joe Rudi and Rotlie Fingers, the tandem that let the Dodgers catch up on that third leg. The Dodgers evened things up in the six-man, 1320-yard relay race, with the help of a dropped baton pass between Oakland's Bill North and Reggie Jackson on the fifth leg. Whereas the baseball competition went relatively smoothly, the football had a few problems. The Vikings bicycle tandem of Mick Tinglehoff and Dave Osborn took a one-second lead over Pittsburgh's L. C. Greenwood and Jim Clack, but Andy Russell and Franco Harris put the Steelers out to a five-second lead on the second lap. Then the problem hit. The seat turned on Allan Page's bike and he lost his peddling rhythm. By the time he got it back the Steelers were too far ahead to catch up. The Vikes then filed an equipment protest, which ABC upheld. That meant the last two legs of the race were to be run over again with the Steelers given a five-second lead. But following a team discussion, Minnesota withdrew its protest. "I left it up to them (the last four peddlers)," said Viking captain Tinglehoff. "They figured five seconds was too big a lead and they didn't want to tire out for the other events." THE STEELERS actually won the relay race, but the Vikings lodged another protest, and it was upheld, giving them the win instead. Pittsburgh had a big lead, but Steeler runner Franco Harris absentmindedly wandered into the lane where Paul Krause was running and the two brushed each other, stopping Krause's momentum. "1 didn't even realize what I was doing," said Harris. "But these crybabies want to protest everything. They knew we had them beat." Competition begins at 9:30 a.m. today with a volleyball match on the beach at Hilton Hawaiian Village. That will be followed by a canoe race at 11:30 and a tug-of-war at 2 p.m. If the Dodgers win one event they clinch a berth In the finals against the Steclers-vikings winner. Results on Page F-4 4